40 LegUmiriOSCZ. \Pycnospora. 



sharply acuminate, striate, persistent, Iflts. 9-15, usually alter- 

 nate, shortly stalked, oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, 

 apiculate, glabrous, pale beneath ; fl. few, rather small, 

 nodding on slender, hispid ped., about 3 in small hispid and 

 glandular racemes, much shorter than 1.; cal. somewhat hispid- 

 glandular, or nearly glabrous, segm. acute ; pod 1-2 in., long- 

 stalked, moniliform, beaked, much contracted between the 

 oblong-ovoid joints, joints 1-4 longitudinally striate, muri- 

 culate and viscous with glands. 



Dry region, rather common. Anuradhapura ; Kekirawa; Tissa- 

 maharama ; Bibile. Moon's locality is Matale ; there are specimens from 

 him in Herb. Mus. Brit., collected in 1819. Fl. Dec-April; dull yellow. 



Also in Peninsular India, Siam, Philippines, Polynesia, and Trop. 

 Africa. 



A form with a very prickly pod was collected at Vigitapura, near 

 Kalawewa Tank. 



15. ELEIOTIS, DC. 



Annual, 1. i-foliolate; fl. minute, in long axillary racemes; 

 cal.-segm. long, setaceous; keel-pet. adherent to wing-pet.; 

 stam. diadelphous, anth. uniform ; pod of a single boat-shaped 

 membranous joint, 1 -seeded. — Monotypic. 



E. sororia, DC. Prod. ii. 348 (1825). 



Thw. Enum. 412. C. P. 3765. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 153. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 50, f. 2 {Glycine monofihylld). 



A prostrate annual, stems long, slender, triquetrous, 

 glabrous, very slightly winged at the angles; 1. simple, lflt. 

 small, rounded, much broader than long, deeply emarginate, 

 glabrous above, hairy beneath, with two minute stipellse at 

 base ; petiole J-§ in., stip. triangular, acute, striate, mem- 

 branous; fl. shortly stalked, in numerous very long, filiform, 

 pubescent, trailing axillary racemes ; pod very small, of 1 joint 

 \ in. long, compressed, boat-shaped, glabrous, veined.. 



Moist low country; very rare. Only collected near Colombo by 

 Ferguson in 1862; but probably overlooked elsewhere. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 

 I have but little material for description. 



16. PYCNOSPORA, R. Br. 



Perennial, semi-shrubby, 1. pinnately 3-foliolate ; fl. small, 

 in terminal racemes; cal. very deeply cut, upper segm. con- 

 nate, lower longer; keel-pet. obtuse; stam. diadelphous, anth. 



